Since September, commemorative exhibitions have opened at the Fundación Mapfre, the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Museu Picasso Barcelona.
The celebration of the 50th anniversary of the artist's death now extends internationally with exhibitions in Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium and the United States.
The Picasso Celebration 1973-2023 is already underway. More than 187,000 people have visited, so far, the first exhibitions in Spain of the commemorative program: 'Julio González, Pablo Picasso and the dematerialization of sculpture' at the Mapfre Foundation; 'Picasso/Chanel', at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum; and 'Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. Dealer and editor', at the Museu Picasso Barcelona. Inaugurated between September and December this year, they are part of the official program that will commemorate, until 2024, the 50th anniversary of the artist's death, which falls on April 8.
50 EXHIBITIONS FOR THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY
Since it began in September, the 1973-2023 Picasso Celebration has attracted in its first three months more than 113,000 people to the exhibition at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, which opened on October 11; while some 50,000 have seen, so far, the Picasso show at the Fundación Mapfre and more than 24,000 the one at the Museu Picasso Barcelona.
In addition, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia held between December 1 and 2 the International Congress 'Picasso from the cultural studies. Dream and lie of Spain (1898-1922)' that counted with renowned scholars from different fields who debated on the historical circumstances that the artist from Malaga lived between 1898 and 1922. This congress was followed by more than 300 people in person and remotely.
AN INTERNATIONAL EVENT
The tribute to Picasso transcends Spanish borders. In fact, in these four months of 2022 the public has also been able to delve into Picasso's career as an artist in Europe and the United States.
Between September and December, the exhibitions 'Picasso-El Greco' (Kunstmuseum Basel, Bâle, Switzerland); 'Fernande and Françoise' (Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster, Germany); 'Fernande Olivier and Pablo Picasso, in the intimacy of the Bateau-Lavoir' (Musée de Montmartre, Paris), 'Picasso and abstraction' (Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique) and 'Cubism and the tradition of trompe-l'oeil' (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA). NEW YORK, USA).
The success of these first events framed in the Picasso Celebration are a sign of the attraction that the figure of Pablo Picasso still awakens today, considered an international reference, a symbol of creativity and a builder of the modern look, as his expressive, free and multiform language continues to influence the most contemporary art.
The Picasso Celebration invites all citizens of Europe and the United States to immerse themselves in the life and work of this artist who, from a deep knowledge of the heritage and principles of tradition and an understanding of classicism as an ethical value, projected internationally such universal symbols as Guernica, a collective emblem in the defense of human rights.
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